Overall: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
Plot/Storyline: 📖📖📖📖
Feels: 🦋🦋🦋🦋
Emotional Depth: 💔💔💔💔
Tension: ⚡⚡⚡⚡
Romance: 💞💞💞💞
Sensuality: 💋💋💋💋💋
Intimate Scene Length: 🍑🍑🍑🍑🍑
Steam Scale (Number of Scenes): 🔥🔥
Humor: Yes, quite a bit
Perspective: Third person from both hero and heroine (probably fairly evenly split)

Should I read in order?
Yes! They are all so good and this is a continuation of the characters from her Victorian Rebels series. If you want to start at the very beginning, get The Highwayman. That said, I do think this one stands alone fairly well if you don’t mind some side characters mentioned that you don’t know (Dorian Blackwell from The Highwayman, Morley from Seducing a Stranger, Felicity and Mercy from Tempting Fate and Dancing with Danger...the interactions are small though.)

Basic plot:
Eli Wolfe made his fortune in the American West after being born with nothing. Now in England, he’s searching for a treasure stolen from him and somehow gets caught in a compromising position with the very sweet Rosaline Goode.

Give this a try if you want:
- Victorian time period (1892)
- Ruined heroine resulting in marriage
- American hero, British heroine
- Kleptomania faced as a challenge
- Medium steam – 2 scenes but one being 10% of the book and the shorter total page count make this one feel hotter
- Age gap with older hero

Ages:
- Hero I believe is 36 (He comments on her being 15 years younger than him and thinks about the silver in his hair), heroine 21

My thoughts:
Honestly, I wasn’t sure how I would feel about this one. Meeting Eli, I wasn’t sold on him after his first interaction with Rosalind. But I tend to adore ruined heroine and that happened pretty soon in the book.

Eli totally won me over. Totally. He was so sweet and gentle with Rosalind and I just ate it up. He was born in Nevada with nothing, and ended up making a fortune in the mines out there. He’s a bit jaded from everyone wanting things from him, or just taking from him and he struggles a bit with trust.

Rosalind is just the sweetest. Coming from a family that has suffered, she struggles with coping with her past trauma and my heart just broke for her. Seeing her interactions with Eli and her family I found myself loving her so much.

There were quite a bit of feels for me in this novel. I laughed at how adorable they were together, and how Eli tried to curb his language and American harshness from her. My heart was gripped as Rosalind shared her demon and how she struggles. I swooned over the love scenes that were a perfect balance of details and heart.

The story felt complete for me, I do wish there had been a touch more character depth but I think it was great for the shorter page count. As always with her, I just want more and never want it to end haha.


Content Warnings:

Sexual assault (heroine remembers prior suitor reaching down her dress and pinching her nipple hard enough to bruise it)
Gun usage/being shot at
Use of the word “Savage” – referencing American customs (to get the hero and heroine out of a compromising position) “I vow, Lady Brackefeld, when I visited the American West, I was often privy to such strange and savage practices from our uncivilized cousins.”
Remembrance of being institutionalized as a child for 7 years due to being gay 
Kleptomania
Attempted sexual and physical assault on page of heroine

Locations of kisses/intimate scenes:

34% - kiss
50% - wedding night – touches, fingering orgasm for her, oral for her, missionary
86% - kisses, bends her over an ironing table, rips her drawers and has his way with her